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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-ADBE76
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Iron age copper alloy brooch fragment, 46mm long, 7mm wide and thick and weighing 10.55grams. The object represents the bow of a brooch and is sub- circular
in cross section with a C shaped form. The object is incomplete at both ends and its body widens out towards its centre before narrowing and at one end has a rectangular cross sectioned projection, which would have formed part of the brooch foot. The upper surface is decorated with a band of decoration contained within incised lines running the length of the bow. This contains a repeat pattern of two diagonal incised lines flanking a rounded depression and ridge. In between there is a field of punched dots.
The bow fits a Hull and Hawkes/Adams type 1A brooch which are dated to 450-300BC.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 450 BC
Date to: Circa 300 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 46 mm
Width: 7 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 10.55 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Hinckley and Bosworth (District)
Parish or ward: Earl Shilton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP4796
Four figure Latitude: 52.55981344
Four figure longitude: -1.30813947
1:25K map: SP4796
1:10K map: SP49NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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